he's written a series of crime thrifers centered around irish pathologis. it's called a death in summer. i'm pleased to have john banville at this table. >> thank you. >> charlie: are they the same person in a sense. >> i started o to bbenjin black back in 2004, i wasn't sure first of all if i could do it. i wasn't sure if i could create this frankenstein monster. >> charlie: why did you want to do. >> that's what i keep asking myself. it was a frolic i was going off, a nice adventure to take on. i was just turning 60 and thought let's do something exciting. looking back now i think perhaps there were deeper reasons for it. maybe banville needed to push in a different direction. friend of mine in dublin says beckett said he took up french so he could write without style. my friend said maybe that's what he's doing and perhaps it is because black writes a very direct straightforward style and i don't thinanybody would say that about bville. >> charlie: is there something sexy about writing crime thrillers. >> it did amuse me to think what the viewers would s